The scholar Christina Sharpe’s new book comprises memories, ... “Ordinary Notes” makes full use of its form, finding in fragmentation a way to propose and to elaborate, ...

After I finished college, Leslie Jamison’s The Empathy Exams won my allegiance immediately and forever.

It turns out that Joan Didion, who probed the depths of her grief for her late husband John Gregory Dunne in the powerful 2005 memoir “The Year of Magical Thinking,” had a previous history of ...

Notes to John reveals how agonizing Didion finds the act of loving to be, how awkward and sloppy. She tells MacKinnon, “All my life I have turned away from people who were trouble to me. Cut ...

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

What would Joan Didion think about the new book “Notes to John?” The fresh release from Knopf is a collection of Didion’s therapy session notes that were discovered in a filing cabinet after ...

Joan Didion's diary of post-therapy notes, addressed to her husband, John Gregory Dunne, ... The book, “Notes to John,” will be published in hardcover and ebook by Knopf on April 22.

Reading "Notes to John", Joan Didion's posthumously published book of post-therapy jottings, left me "feeling a little grubby at being privy to such an intrusion", said Catherine Jarvie in The i ...

In Taylor Swift’s original liner notes for "Speak Now" in 2010, she said, “I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back regretting the moments we didn't speak up.” ...

Review. Notes on Surviving the Fire. By Christine Murphy Knopf: 288 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

Librarian finds love notes, doodles in books and shares them with a grateful public. The public library in Oakland, Calif., has an online fan following. August 3, 2022 More than ...

The Oakland Public Library has spent years collecting items its patrons have left in library books, from old photographs to love notes. The archive is available publicly on their website.